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  • Gender and Digital Development in Thailand (English)

    The wave of digital transformation has swept across the globe, with its pace significantly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which expedited the adoption of digital technologies by several years. However...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184843 Document Date: September 11, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Portfolio Risk Assessment Using Risk Index (English)

    This Technical Note provides detailed information on the Brazilian risk classification system using the RI approach and the Indian RI system for the initial risk screening of a large portfolio of existing...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 158485 Document Date: April 22, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Transforming Rural Non-Farm Livelihoods : The NRLM Journey (English)

    Rural India is primarily an agri-based economy. Over-dependence on agriculture has meant declining percapita rural income which has gradually initiated a shift towards the non-farm sector. This transition...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 148865 Document Date: March 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Acharya,Gayatri

  • Strengthening GAC in Projects (English)

    The project is the place where governance and anti-corruption (GAC) becomes concrete for most clients and World Bank staff. Unfortunately, there is no more contested space in the GAC arena then the project...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 143497 Document Date: October 13, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Turkewitz,Joel A.

  • Nowcasting Poverty in India for 2014-15 : A Survey to Survey Imputation Approach (English)

    Because of India's size, the age of its most recent available poverty survey, and the availability of a more recent nationally representative survey, the World Bank utilized a survey to survey imputation...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 130008 Document Date: September 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Newhouse,David Locke,Vyas,Pallavi

  • Assessing the poverty footprint of World Bank projects at sub-national levels (English)

    Every year, the World Bank spends millions of dollars on development projects in its member countries. But do these investments reach the poor? This note presents a spatial approach to examine the poverty...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 126924 Document Date: June 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nguyen,Nga Thi Viet,Hoogeveen,Johannes G.

  • Screening prospective investors (English)

    This note provides guidance to governments on how to screen and select prospective investment projects to ensure they maximize the social, economic, and environmental benefits while minimizing the risks...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 124281 Document Date: March 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Innovating Bureaucracy for Increasing Government Productivity (English)

    Improving government productivity is one of themain challenges of economic development. Althoughconsensus exists around the core policies needed fordeveloping countries to achieve equitable growth andreduce...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 123691 Document Date: February 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hasnain,Zahid,Rogger,Daniel Oliver

  • Community driven development : findings and applied learning (English)

    In response to a request by the Government, the World Bank mobilized grant financing through the State and Peace-Building Fund to first study and then pilot ways to deliver local assistance in Thailand's...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 117806 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: